What Do We Talk About When We Talk?

Speculative grammar and the semantics and pragmatics of focus

This monograph deals with the aboutness of language. First, the sense in which language is about or reflects both reality and a mental picture of reality is turned into a cornerstone of a reflectionist or Speculative Grammarian semantics and pragmatics. Second, the Speculative Grammar idea is made concrete in a logico-linguistic account of the way language is about the whole of reality as well as about certain fractions of it. Third, the reflectionist perspective is used for a universalist account of the way speech acts are about their subjects, topics, and foci.

Cited by other publications

Sperber, Dan & Ira A. Noveck

2004.
In Experimental Pragmatics,
► pp. 1 ff.

Swiggers, Pierre

1986.
In The Semiotic Sphere,
► pp. 343 ff.

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